The final round of garden waste brown bin collections in Leeds begins next week before the service goes into its usual winter break.
Leeds City Council delivers the largest garden waste collection service by any council in the UK, annually collecting more than 31,000 tonnes of garden waste from 220,000 households in brown bins across the city. The service is designed to assist households with gardens and to supplement home composting.
Each year, brown bin collections are paused during the winter months due to the dramatically reduced demand for garden waste disposal, with the service resuming in the following spring.
This year, the last round of collections will begin from Monday 17 November 2025, with the final scheduled collection day being Saturday 29 November.
To check their street’s final collection day, all Leeds residents who receive a brown bin garden waste collection can go to www.leeds.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/check-your-bin-day, while reminders can also be sent directly to smartphones by downloading the popular Leeds Bins app.
After the collections are paused, garden waste can still be taken to any of the eight council-run local household waste recycling centres for free.The Middleton site is located on Holme Well Road, LS10 4TQ, behind Asda and is open seven days a week, 8am-4pm.
All garden waste collected by the council through the year is composted locally and used in farming, horticulture and local land restoration projects. However, composting can also be done at home and is by far the best solution for the environment. This produces excellent soil conditioner for gardens or house plants, with fallen leaves at this time of the year perfect mulch or leaf mould. For more information on composting visit www.leeds.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/composting.
Leeds City Council’s executive member for climate, energy, environment and green space, Councillor Mohammed Rafique said:
“With winter approaching we close down the brown bin collections so it is important for everyone who gets a garden waste collection to put their bin out for the final time if it needs emptying over the next two weeks.
“If any residents have garden waste to be disposed off while the service is on its break through the winter, it can be taken to any of our household waste recycling centres and disposed of easily there for free.”
This post is based on a press release issued by Leeds City Council
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